Tag Archives: Visitors from London

Written by Kitty Barne, illustrated by Ruth Gervis. In the summer of 1939, the four Farrar children come to spend the summer with their aunt and become involved in Operation Pied Piper when their aunt get wrangled into becoming a ‘Housemother’ for 17 evacuees at the nearby farmhouse ‘Steadings’. The children are involved, first withContinue reading “Visitors from London (1940)”

Visitors from London by Kitty Barne is out of print and copies currently sell for £50 and more on abebooks.co.uk. As I have a self-imposed limit of maximum £15 per book, I’ve not read this yet. According to Keith Barker in Outstanding Books for Children and Young People – the LA Guide to Carnegie/Greenaway WinnersContinue reading “Visitors from London (1940)”